While Ibsen's plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century
historical sources highlight his strong impact on the national theatre practice. To address
this contradiction Gianina Druta approaches the reception of Ibsen in the Romanian theatre in
the period 1894-1947 combining Digital Humanities and theatre historiography. This
investigation of the European theatre culture and the way in which the foreign acting and
staging traditions influenced the Romanian Ibsenites provides new insights into mechanisms of
aesthetic transmission. Thus this study presents a European theatre landscape whose
unpredictability and uniqueness cannot be confined to essentialist interpretations.
